Improvement in spinning rope and cordage



'UNITED STATES PATENT4 'A OFFICE.

JESSE CARPENTER, oF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN SPINNING ROPE AND CJORDAGE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No.' l l,775, dated October 10, 1854.

To all whom it may concern: n

Be vit known that I, JESSE CARPENTER, of the city and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement on Cullen Whipples Machine for Spinning Vegetable Fiber, which Aconsists in increasing the speed of spinning by VVhipples process and in winding .up the yarn as fast `as it is thus spun; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact'description of the construction and operation ofthe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a partof this specification, and

to the iigures thereon, in which- Figure l is a top view 'of the machine with the' bail inverted, looking down upon it. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same with the bail inverted. Fig. 3 is a cross-section of the same at A B. Fig. 4 is a cross-section of the same at C Dwilhout the flier.

The severahparts of the machine are-indicated and described by the following letters.

of reference on the drawings:

a is-the frame rstand of the machine; a, the driving-prille f for revolving the flier; bb, the flier-heads, the form of which 'is left to the judgment of the builder; c e', the flierarms, which are tubular to allow' the passage of the yarn through them; dd', the two shafts of the flier, which revolve on the bearings cl" (Z; e e,the bail-heads, which .hang and play upon the i'nnerends of the Hier-shafts' (l d', and-which must be of such form and dimensions as to allow the fiier to revolve around about them; f f, two rods or arms connecting and supporting the bail-heads e e; g, the spool-barrel, around which the yarn is wound up; g g', the spool-heads; h, an endless screw, on which plays back and forth the slide t" by means of the fork t' upon the arm tw; jj, guide-loops (pulleys may be substitinted)v ou the slide i. and on the bailhead e' for regularly distributing the yarn as it traveses the length of the spool-barrel; k, a drivingpinion on the inner end of the Hier-shaft df for driving th'e capstan-gearing, with which iti is connected; Z l', projections or `bearers of any convenient form attached to the bailheads e e for supporting the bearings of the rspool-shaft; Z, lfor keeping bearing 'r of the spool-shaft in the bearer Z; m, gear-wheel connected with the pinion k for driving the q' pin through the capstan-shaft m forkeepf4 ing c ollar inplace; r, spool-shaft bearing in4 the bearer Z; fr', pinion cut 'on the end of the spool-shaft r for driving the 'endless screw by means'of the intermediates r and ir asthe spool revolves;` lr-r, the yarn, showingthe direction in which it is drawn through the aperture t of'the bearing. d" and the shaft d, thence through the'tube t of the arm c of the flier, thence through the aperture tff of the vshaft d and bearing d,thence around the capstan n, thence through the guide-loops j. and j, and thence-around the spool-barrel g.

Tho nature' of my invention consists in elevating the spool above the ier-sha'ftmso' as to makeitoccupy nearly all the spaeebe dtween the-arms of the ier andthe "baihby which yarrangement the heads of the flier' can be shortened and a greater velbeity given to thefrevollition of the flier in 'rderto' obtain greater speed in spinning byW ipples process, and in regulating the revolution of -the spool by means of a frictonswheel, so as to enable it to Wind up the yarn,'whose draft and twist are governed by a positive motion as fast as it is delivered and with less tension and less liability to break.

The frame or stand of the machine andthe several parts of thelatter, except the spool barrel and heads, should be made of the best steel and iron. The bail or frame `B L,` that -hangs upon the flier-shafts d d and within the flier-arms c c', must be built sueiently heavy, for in the revolution of the `hier around and about itit is intended always to hang pendent by its own weight,.though it may s ightly oseillate upon its bearers withoutl affecting theV result -in any. way; The spool must always behung above andparallel with the 'nier-shafts, so that its bearings must be equidistant between-the arms of the flier and of the bail, audit may be made to revolve' either with or against Ithe flier by a. suitable arrangement of the gearing, though I pref-er to revolve it against the dier because itrmoves more steadily. As the dier-shaft revolves on its axes it drives, by means of the pinion 7s lthrough the intermediate m, the eapstan u.'

The velocity with which the capstan revolves regulates the draft and twist of the yarn as .it passes through the Hier-arm tube c. With an increasev of the diameter of either the capstan n or the gear-wheel 711- the draft of the yarn will be accelerated and the twist consequently lessened, and vice versa, and withy any given' regulation of the draft and twist by means of thecapstan the winding up of the yarn on the spool will fully accord,- for the motion given to the spool through the intermediate 'o' is governed and adjusted by the friction-wheel o, whose velocity is determined by the speed required to wind up the yarn as itis delivered from the capstan n.

Now I do not claim the principle orprofriction-wheel o, whereby the yarn, whose draft and twist are governed by the eapstan n, is wound up as fast as it is delivered with less tension and withless liability to break, lthe whole substantially as above described.. JESSE CARPENTER.

Witnesses:

' y B. MCDOUGALL,

JOHN R; GRAY. 

